Comments update: readers are debating the merits of Nintendo's Pokémon GO smartphone video game, with some questioning its implications on the way people experience the built environment. More about "How does one interact with cities when you are continuously looking into your phone?"
Movie: in this exclusive video interview, Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher explains how he hopes to take the practice forward after the unexpected death of Zaha Hadid earlier this year. More about Patrik Schumacher explains his future plans for Zaha Hadid Architects
Just two weeks after the release of Nintendo's mobile game Pokémon GO, designers have created an array of products aimed at making it easier for players to "catch 'em all". More about Five products that have already been designed for Pokémon GO
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has released new images of its 30-storey Soho Tower in New York, which will be the firm's first residential project in Manhattan. More about New images revealed of Renzo Piano's 565 Broome Soho tower in New York
Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have built a house in São Paulo that is covered in palm fibre to give it a hairy exterior (+ slideshow). More about Campana brothers use palm fibre to give hairy texture to São Paulo house
British architect Crispin Wride has released his own concept for a Garden Bridge in London, which he claims is more cost-efficient than Thomas Heatherwick's proposal and more imaginative then the alternative suggested by Allies and Morrison. More about Latest Garden Bridge alternative features four leaf-shaped "stepping stones"
Amsterdam-based designer Germans Ermičs has created a collection of coloured glass furniture with strong pigments that fade to clear (+ slideshow). More about Germans Ermičs creates coloured glass furniture collection
Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has been chosen to design the interior for New York's The Four Seasons restaurant when it relocates from its iconic Seagram Building home. More about Isay Weinfeld to design relocated The Four Seasons restaurant in New York
Architecture studio Paper House Project has added a double-height atrium surrounded by gridded windows to an apartment in a converted warehouse in east London (+ slideshow). More about Paper House Project inserts gridded glass atrium into London warehouse home
Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles has created a sound-absorbing screen as his latest product for office acoustics specialists Buzzispace (+ slideshow). More about Alain Gilles designs felt BuzziBlinds to shield workers from office noise
Vietnamese studio Tropical Space has completed a cube-shaped sculpture workshop for artist Le Duc Ha, which hides an elaborate bamboo shelving grid behind its perforated brick walls (+ slideshow). More about Tropical Space uses perforated brickwork to build riverside pottery studio in Vietnam
New York studio Alexander Gorlin Architects has completed a Bronx apartment block with small studios for low-income tenants, including those who were once homeless (+ slideshow). More about Alexander Gorlin creates colourful affordable housing for single adults in The Bronx
The Design Museum has opened its first ever standalone retail space, moments away from its new west London site (+ slideshow). More about John Pawson creates first standalone shop for London's Design Museum
Instagram users are posting photos that show the almost-finished pair of twisted towers that Bjarke Ingels' firm is building in Miami. More about BIG's The Grove at Grand Bay twisted towers near completion
Los Angeles firm A-Industrial has clad the walls and ceiling of a juice bar in plywood slats, creating a sculptural geometric interior (+ slideshow). More about A-Industrial clads juice store interior with geometric plywood
A+Awards: we're launching a major collaboration with Architizer profiling winners from its A+Awards. First up is this house in the Mexican highlands, with rammed-earth walls made from soil excavated on site (+ slideshow). More about Cherem Arquitectos builds rammed-earth house in Mexican highlands
Danish studio GamFratesi created animals from metal wire for the Apple Watch Hermès window display in Japan (+ slideshow). More about GamFratesi designs animalistic Apple Watch window display for Hermès
Inside 2016: a converted shophouse, a 1950s-style burger restaurant and a monochrome fashion boutique are among the projects shortlisted for the Inside Awards 2016 (+ slideshow). More about World Interior of the Year 2016 shortlist announced
MVRDV has moved into a new studio in central Rotterdam, featuring multicoloured meeting rooms, a plant-covered chandelier, an oversized dining table and a staircase that doubles as a seating area (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV creates home-inspired rooms for its new Rotterdam office
Renzo Piano has cut 54 storeys from his stalled Paddington Pole skyscraper to create a new proposal for a "floating" glass cube on the site by London's Paddington station. More about Renzo Piano slashes height of controversial Paddington skyscraper